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Today is my special day for Jennifer’s Garden Party Blog Hop. This month, 30 designers are creating 10″ paper pieced blocks. Links to download the free patterns are available here and you can see the blocks that have been created so far in the Flickr Group.

Patio Umbrella

My fabrics – the flower prints are from my 1930s stash of fat quarters. The two prints are from Feedsack by Sara Morgan for Blue Hill Fabrics. The blue sky fabric is from my hand dyes and the orange dot fabric is Arabella by Pat Sloan (I think!).

I prefer to measure my paper pieced segments, add 3/4″ for seam allowance and fudge room, and then pre-cut my fabrics into usable shapes in advance. I have included my measurements in the PDF file. This way, I have all of my pieces ready when I head to the sewing machine and I know that all of my pieces will fit the required sections.

When trimming the pieces, with freezer paper foundation piecing, you need to add back the seam allowances that were cut off the paper templates. Here are the three sections:

When stitching the three sections together, I first joined sections B and C, being careful to match up the pole/trunk of the umbrella. I stitched with section B on the top, so that I didn’t accidentally cut off any of the points of the umbrella.

Cute block! I printed it out and there seems to be an issue w/pg. 2 & 4. On my copy the lines are all haywire. I didn’t see a link to the designer’s blog…so am posting the issue here. LOVE that you used the 30’s fabs for it. Cute!

This is so cute, I have to try it, though the tiny points are scaring me a bit. I love using freezer paper for pp, no tearing the paper off. I like that you can use them several times, if you are careful. I have always cut my own, but want to try this paper. So much easier.Thanks for the tip and the cute pattern!

No jamming….just printed again and it is still all wonky. ??? The main shapes are there, in the umbrella top, for example, the lines that go across are not there and the ones that are there are creating a triangle shape to the left. Maybe I should download it again….Have not had any issues with these blocks prior to this.